- Date
- June 22, 2018, 21:14 local (Jun 23, 2018, 03:14 UTC)
- Place
- Goodyear, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7072YPiper PA 30
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 97613
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Probable cause
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The flight instructor reported that, while landing at night, the pilot receiving instruction allowed the twin-engine airplane to drift left of the centerline at touchdown. The pilot then overcorrected with right rudder, the airplane veered to the right, and the pilot then locked the brakes. The airplane continued to veer right and exited the runway. The flight instructor added that he did not ask for the flight controls but that he did ask the pilot to release the brakes; however, the pilot did not do so. After exiting the runway, the flight instructor had only right rudder and nosewheel steering and "fishtailed" the airplane further to the right before the left main landing gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The automated weather observation system on the airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 230° at 9 knots. The pilot landed the airplane on runway 21.
Factual narrative
The flight instructor reported that, while landing at night, the pilot receiving instruction allowed the twin engine airplane to drift left of the centerline at touchdown. The pilot then overcorrected with right rudder, the airplane veered to the right, and the pilot then locked the brakes. The airplane continued to veer right and exited the runway. The flight instructor further added that he did not request the flight controls but asked the pilot to release the brakes to no avail. After exiting the runway, the flight instructor had only right rudder and nosewheel steering and "fishtailed" the airplane further to the right before the left main landing gear collapsed. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The automated weather observation system on the accident airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 230° at 9 knots. The pilot landed on runway 21.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7072Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA 30 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-85
- Built
- 1963
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-320-B, 160 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming IO-320-B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Buckeye Flight Experience, LLC, doing business as FlyGoodyear
- Registered owner
- Fly Twin Comanche LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- GYR · Goodyear, AZ
- Destination
- VCV · Victorville, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- GYR · Phoenix Goodyear, runway 21, 8,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 24, 2018
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 88 in this make and model · 8,505 as pilot in command · 101 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 230° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.63 inHg
- Observed at
- KGYR, 1 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 4, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.3 MB in all.